Our mission at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society includes curing leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. It is with great pride and honor that we fund researchers across the country including many great researchers right here in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Helen Heslop is one of the Texas researchers being funded by the LLS. She and her team work out of Baylor College of Medicine and they are the recipient of an LLS SCOR (Specialized Center of Research) grant of $6 million through 2018. Dr. Heslop is the director for Center Cell and Gene Therapy at Texas Children's Hospital as well as director of Adult Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program at BCM.
With her team, Dr. Heslop is using the LLS funds to continue research on mobilizing the immune system to control cancers of the blood. The team has successfully worked to create safer, simpler immunotherapies for two different types of blood cancer - acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and multiple myeloma. Not only are they researching methods in which immunotherapies will provide better results in a safer manner, but they are also working toward achieving reduced costs of treatments to make them more accessible to patients.
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